Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: ' Mixed Race' in the Australo-Pacific Region -- Australia -- 1 Descent, Classification and Indigeneity in Australia -- 2 Chinese History, Indigenous Identity and Mixed Ancestry in Australia's Gulf Country -- 3 'A Mini United Nations': Being Mixed in Multicultural Australia -- 4 'Now, Look at My Skin, It Is Black and It Is White Together' -- 5 'Just Asian'? Inscribing East Asian 'Mixed Race' in Australia -- The Pacific -- 6 Constructing and Interpreting 'Mixed Race' and 'Mixed Parentage' in Papua New Guinea -- 7 The Transformation of the 'Métis Question' in New Caledonia, 1853-2009 -- 8 A Categorical Failure: 'Mixed Race' in Colonial Papua New Guinea -- 9 Lingering Legacies of German Colonialism: The 'Mixed Race' Identities in Oceania -- 10 'Mixed Race' Activism Within Ethno-Nationalist Conflict: West Papuan Experiences -- New Zealand -- 11 'Kraut', 'Coconut', or 'Kiwi'?: German-Tongan Identity in New Zealand -- 12 'It's a Bicultural Nation. But the Journey Towards True Biculturalism, It's Not There Yet': Exploring Fathers' Racial Projects in Bringing Up Their Multi-Race Children in New Zealand -- 13 Beyond 'Mixed Race' and 'Unmixed Race': Being and Having Race in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- 14 Narratives of Belonging and Not Belonging: Chinese/ European 'Mixed' Identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Index